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by borism 16y ago
and why do you equal weight loss/gains to being starving or not? I bet most of the people adding weight are actually doing that because they feel starving (majority of American food being too fat and sugary and not nutritional enough).
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by borism 16y ago
And how exactly would you differentiate between printing money "to fund government initiatives" and printing money to fuel the economy? The fact is, even if all the money printed would be given away to non-governmental entities (that is, ce
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by borism 16y ago
Yes I do. First of all, Germany is social democracy, not "socialist". On the other hand US is liberal capitalist country - even slightest hints at turning it more towards European-style social democracy are instantly attacked as "communism"
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by borism 16y ago
second time you claim Germany is "significantly more socialist" than the US. how does one measure "socialism" exactly?
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by borism 16y ago
inflationary monetary policy which other monetary policies you know of? inflation is the underpinning of monetarism - very little to do with Krugman or liberals.
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by borism 16y ago
macbook (pro|air) is just a x86 PC, you can install pretty much anything onto it, it doesn't have to be Mac OS X. also, with unibody macbook (pro)'s it's trivial to replace HDD/SDD.
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by borism 16y ago
do you have any evidence that it's easier for indian immigrants to get high-paid jobs in the US than any other type of immigrant?
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by borism 16y ago
90% of Judaism practitioners have higher IQ because they're jews. Makes sense...
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by borism 16y ago
Wow, how did Alaska manage to outspend pretty much everyone by 100+% ? Bridges to nowhere and stuff like that? Anyway, this is getting offtopic since this $2.8M p.a. is breadcrumbs compared to what FB employees will be paying in tax to Cali
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by borism 16y ago
looks incredibly ambitious, like Iridium :)
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by borism 16y ago
I wonder why that is not a problem for example for EC2 US-West (the cheapest EC2 availability zone)? us-west-1 is a great success. Just two weeks after its official launch its level of activity is 73% of eu-west-1, which has been around fo
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by borism 16y ago
did you too not notice the /opinion/ part in the url you provide? please do not submit someone's opinion as a fact. could you provide a link to the original studies mentioned in the article?
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by borism 16y ago
did you notice the /opinion/ part in the url you provide? please do not submit someone's opinion as a fact.
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by borism 16y ago
thank you, I first wanted to use regardless , but for some reason thought that was incorrect. Nevertheless the issue is controversial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless
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by borism 16y ago
by blowing $2.8 million on nothing sure, so now Oregon will loan additional $2.8M here and $3M there until it itself becomes the California and comes back to FB asking for money. Of course by then there will be plenty of bankrupt states (
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by borism 16y ago
it was 50bn last week :)
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by borism 16y ago
tax break, what else? After officially announcing plans to build a data center in Prineville on Thursday, Facebook officials told The Bulletin that the tax incentive offered to the company through an enterprise zone was a key reason it cam
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by borism 16y ago
edit: before I get people bitching at me http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html this is a great link since we had this argument here before with about half HNers thinking that income somehow correlates to IQ. however this
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by borism 16y ago
Primarily the families who immigrate already in upper-bracket of income in India and furthermore their education level would be superior to most Hindus too Yeah, but why does it matter when they come to the US? Shouldn't hindus who immigr
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by borism 16y ago
Libertarian Echo Chamber - this is exactly what it is
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by borism 16y ago
Well, disabling passwordless accounts is one of the first things I do with my computer. I wonder if there are scripts that will connect to unsecured networks, whether it's a good idea and how good electronics thieves are at countermeasuring
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by borism 16y ago
flagging
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by borism 16y ago
I have installed Adeona ( http://adeona.cs.washington.edu ) too previously, but I don't exactly understand how will my laptop connect to the internet when stolen?
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by borism 16y ago
I don't see how (s)he can be saying yes to all the money coming in and NOT be favoring one over another. It's not like everyone is giving equal amounts of money? In your own example - it's not like school will not accept somebody if they're
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by borism 16y ago
2) by being Tor relay, well, you relay traffic for other Tor users. If you find some content objectionable (be it child pornography or cnn.com) you can block that content from being reachable to your relay with other tools (ip/dns blacklist
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by borism 16y ago
The corporations control both fiscal (tax revenue) and political (jobs) levers of the legislature. The politicians in the US (or most democratic countries for that matter) cannot simply say no to the money from large multinationals. Especia
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by borism 16y ago
If you're reading this, care and have some spare bandwidth, may I suggest you set up Tor relay? Because you know, Tor wouldn't be possible without people and organisations willing to volunteer. The setup is pretty trivial with Vidalia UI an
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by borism 16y ago
This is an interesting chicken-and-egg question we had not so long before - is it legislature or is it business that produces corruption? The answer is not black and white and depends on jurisdiction.
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by borism 16y ago
it's a bug :) here's some official info http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/skype_downtime_today.html
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by borism 16y ago
you're welcome. it's a pretty bad outage though. we're fixing it.

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